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Marse David had de grown mens go sweep up de cottonseed in de ginhouse on Sunday mornin ', and for three Sundays us went to school.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

De menfolks said dey hitched up mules to run it, and dat dey had a cotton press inside de ginhouse.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

When us went on de fourth Sunday night riders had done made a shape lak a coffin in de sand out in front, and painted a sign on de ginhouse what read: 'No Niggers' lowed to be taught in dis ginhouse. '

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

She mounted one mule and the two boys another, and thus they rode to the ginhouse.

Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child. Various

Dey burn de ginhouse, de shop, de buggyhouse, de turkeyhouse an 'de fowlhouse.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

But us was too skeered to go back to de ginhouse to school.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

He perceived that another part of the fence was afire and that it was fast running along the dried grass to the ginhouse.

Memorials of a southern planter, 1887

He saw them, one by one, leave their cotton at the ginhouse, and trail despondingly off to their cabins.

Winter Evening Tales Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

Occasionally, where the silvery sand was darkened by a considerable intermixture of mould, there would be a large plantation, with negro-quarters, and a cotton-press and ginhouse.

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856

It's only been a few days since I've been able to talk about it … I mean talk openly and soberly, and not in a rummied up state at some sleazy corner ginhouse.

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